of hurricane katrina vowing to clean up corruption and cronyism in new orleans but today, ex mayor, ray nagin, goes on trial facing 21 federal counts of the crimes he promised to get rid of. hello. i m ashleigh banfield. it is good to have you with us this morning. a u.s. representative who admitsed to buying cocaine, congressman trey radle was busted in washington last year. he agreed to a plea deal in november and went to rehab. he had planned, he said, to keep his job. lisa is following the story in washington, d.c. what do we know about the change of heart? in the past few minutes, we got a copy of the congressman s resignation letter. he doesn t say exactly why now but he does say, it is my belief
gunman adam lanza as a loner, obsessed with mass murder and violence. the windows in his room were taped over with garbage bags and he only communicated with his mother by e-mail even though they were living in the same house. the report found adam lanza acted alone and took just about five minutes to kill 26 people, including 20 children, before he took his own life. national security adviser susan rice on her way back to the states right now after putting pressure on afghan president hamid karzai to sign the security deal soon, or the u.s. may pull all troops out of afghanistan by the end of next year, but he wants all prisoners out of gitmo and a ban on any u.s. raids on afghan homes. karzai says he won t sign any deal before april s elections, which the white house says is unacceptable. florida republican leaders calling on congressman trey radle to resign. the state party chair and two county chairs issuing statements encouraging radle to step aside to focus on his drug recove
remember, this is someone who was impeached, who had hit the depths. and now is the most popular political figure in our culture. it s an interesting thing. i think one of the questions about president obama. both president reagan and president clinton got in real trouble in their second terms. the both came back from it. can obama come back the same way? a major democrat told me the other day he s worried about that. because he thinks both clinton and reagan were extremely likable. a lot of people liked them around the country. and he s worried that president obama doesn t have that. we ve got to take a quick break. carl bernstein great to have you on the program. reporters gathered tonight in cape coral on florida s west coast u.s. congressman trey radle is expected to speak in the wake of his guilty plea on a cocaine charge. we ll bring that to you, talk about it when it happens. we ll be right back.
can obama come back the same way? a major democrat told me the other day he s worried about that. because he thinks both clinton and reagan were extremely likable. a lot of people liked them around the country. and he s worried that president obama doesn t have that. we ve got to take a quick break. carl bernstein great to have you on the program. reporters gathered tonight in cape coral on florida s west coast u.s. congressman trey radle is expected to speak in the wake of his guilty plea on a cocaine charge. we ll bring that to you, talk about it when it happens. we ll be right back. i got this. [thinking] is it that time? the son picks up the check? [thinking] i m still working. he s retired. i hope he s saving. i hope he saved enough. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we re owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. whether you re just starting your 401(k) or you are ready for retirement, we ll help you get there.
the example if i m at a bar somebody will have to take a picture with me. if it s late at night i ll take normally fine let s do it. late at night i ll say how about if we have a real conversation because if we do that i m going to end up doing this a lot. the have no interest in having a human conversation. there s this look of disappointment. they re just like oh, no forget it and the walk off. i want to go to breaking news. congressman trey radle pleaded guilty earlier today to cocaine possession. talking to reporters from ft. myers, florida. i m sorry. i have no excuse for what i ve done. and i m not going to sit here and try to make any excuses for what i ve done. i ve let down our country, i ve let down our constituents, i ve let down my family, including my wife. and even though he doesn t know it, i ve let down my 2-year-old son.